The Sunshine...
Just the other day I was watching this awesome movie...Sunshine! What made it so intriguing was the concept..."Our Sun is Dying", so it starts and introduces a completely lateral solution to rekindle the sun. They intend to give the dying sun all of the earth's nuclear energy in a last attempt to restore its light! Icarus I, the first such mission had failed and the plot begins with the Icarus II and its 7 member crew. Life on Icarus II is so awesome'ly real looking. With the payload (Nuclear) delivery being its most important objective, and facing so many problems on the way, they know they won't be able to make it back to earth. The drama is intense and reaches its acme when the Icarus I is found midway inoperational and floating. Against all odds they plan to check it out by docking with it but that causes an unexpected guest to get onboard Icarus II...the psycho commander of Icarus I who's adamnant on stopping the mission. The climax comes when the payload is delivered successfully and the sun rekindles. :)
The movie was super cool what it made me think was if at all the sun decides to bail on us, can it be re-ignited this way? I did a bit of googling and very soon got my answer...it was a flat NO! Let me quote what I found:
"Our sun will never turn off ("die") like it does in some fictitious science fiction movies. Stars continue to fuse elements until they collapse either into a white dwarf, or explode in a supernova. Lifespans range from several million to close to 13.7 billion years. After a star burns through it's lighter elements, it will begin to fuse heavier elements which can be thought of as a gradual period of time that leads to its death. Adding a relatively small thermonuclear payload would be insignificant. If you'd like it then to revert to its previous state, then you can try delivering a payload of something along the lines of 8 x 10^16 grams of hydrogen."
All in all the dying sun problem was really nice one to probe into. I just had one more doubt: "Why the hell do Hindi movie makers not take example from such movies as the sunshine!" Got real damn bored with them!!!
The movie was super cool what it made me think was if at all the sun decides to bail on us, can it be re-ignited this way? I did a bit of googling and very soon got my answer...it was a flat NO! Let me quote what I found:
"Our sun will never turn off ("die") like it does in some fictitious science fiction movies. Stars continue to fuse elements until they collapse either into a white dwarf, or explode in a supernova. Lifespans range from several million to close to 13.7 billion years. After a star burns through it's lighter elements, it will begin to fuse heavier elements which can be thought of as a gradual period of time that leads to its death. Adding a relatively small thermonuclear payload would be insignificant. If you'd like it then to revert to its previous state, then you can try delivering a payload of something along the lines of 8 x 10^16 grams of hydrogen."
All in all the dying sun problem was really nice one to probe into. I just had one more doubt: "Why the hell do Hindi movie makers not take example from such movies as the sunshine!" Got real damn bored with them!!!
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